"Pancake Tuesday" - the Finnish version

This past Tuesday was Shrove Tuesday, but in North America it's often known as "Pancake Tuesday".
So what do you do for Pancake Tuesday?  You eat pancakes.  Yep...with lots of butter (or margarine because let's face it - butter is pricey in North America!!) and maple syrup.
Traditionally, pan cakes were served with coins or other sorts of surprises cooked into them...can you imagine?  What if you lost a tooth on a coin....or worse, swallowed it?!

Well, it's not "Pancake Tuesday" in Finland... but they do have a special food to eat on Shrove Tuesday!
They are called Laskiaispulla!
Pulla is defined as any kind of sweet bread or buns in Finland...not something you would use for a lunch-time sandwich!
I'm typically not a huge fan of pulla because it tends to be super heavy but while visiting a good friend of mine, she showed me them...and all I could see was whipped cream.
(All I could think about was WHIPPED CREAM!  And not think about how tight my pants are already...)

I took one look and asked my friend politely, "How in the world do I eat this without getting it all over myself?"
She told me she likes to eat the top piece then work on the bottom like a donut.
Okay, so NOT like a burger filled with whipped cream and strawberry jam.

These ones have strawberry filling and some have slivered almonds on top...or just whipped cream.

Unfortunately, these are not baked with coins.